"If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it."

-- Michael Harner

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“A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.”
“I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!”
“Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.”
“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.”
“Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.”
“Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.”
“Occupied people are not unhappy people.”
“Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.”

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